17th Century Horn Book previously with London dealer Daniel Bexfield.

 A 17th Century English Silver Filigree Horn Book 

Previously with London dealer Daniel Bexfield.

https://www.bexfield.co.uk/order2.htm

I am very grateful to Daniel Bexfield for allowing me to use his photographs.

Length 11.2 cms.

https://www.bexfield.co.uk/21/w064.htm

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18th Century Silver Filigree Horn Book.

at Tatton Park, Cheshire.

Nation Trust.

Height 11.4 cms

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An 18th Century Silver Filigree Horn Book 

recently sold by Messrs Reeman Dansie. Colchester.

Silver filigree horn book with printed alphabet, and the Lord's Prayer, the initial O containing a bird, covered by mica, with fine filigree rectangular back and handle, 11cm high.

For similar examples, see Sotheby's, New York, Fine Books and Manuscripts 2, Dec. 2014 - Lot 215. Described as probably English, circa 1750 - 1760. Also Woolley & Wallis, 17th June 2009 - Lot 26

Lot 642, 26 Sept. 2017, Reeman Dansie Saleroom, Colchester Essex.

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The Sotheby's Horn Book.

Lot 215, 2 Dec. 2014.

11.5 x 5.5 cms

Provenance - Doris L. Benz (her sale, Christie's NY, 16 November 1984, lot 183).

https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2014/books-manuscripts-n09237/lot.215.html?locale=en

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The Woolley and Wallis of Salisbury Silver Filigree Horn Book.

Lot 26, 17th June 2009.

8.2 x 5.3 cms.

https://www.woolleyandwallis.co.uk/departments/paintings/pw170609/view-lot/26/

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Tuer's History of the Horn Book.

"A silver hornbook that has been stated to have been given by Queen Elizabeth I. to Lord Chancellor Egerton". Apocryphal I suspect!

 

Scanned from Andrew Tuer’s History of the Horn Book, pub.1896.

from- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hornbook-Silver.jpg

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